{"id":3090,"date":"2024-08-20T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/donald-trump-posts-fake-images-of-taylor-swift-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:00:48","slug":"donald-trump-posts-fake-images-of-taylor-swift-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/donald-trump-posts-fake-images-of-taylor-swift-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump posts fake images of Taylor Swift endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump appears to have shared a series of fake images on his social media site, suggesting Taylor Swift and some of her fans are endorsing him for the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

The pictures posted by the former Republican president on Truth Social included a mock poster of Swift<\/strong> dressed in red, white and blue, with a caption that said: \u201cTaylor Swift Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI accept!\u201d Mr Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

Swift has not publicly endorsed a candidate in the 2024 race but previously supported Joe Biden and has criticised Mr Trump in the past.<\/p>\n

The images also included fans wearing \u201cSwifties for Trump\u201d T-shirts.<\/p>\n

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While two of the images feature a real woman who supports Mr Trump, most of the women depicted aren\u2019t real<\/strong>, Sky News\u2019 US partner NBC News reports. At least 15 are representations of people created using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The images he shared had originally been posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-Trump accounts. One of those accounts also posted multiple guides to using generative AI tools on its Substack blog, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no Swifties For Trump movement \u2013 but there should be,\u201d acknowledged one of the accounts that Trump reposted on Truth Social, in a caption on the AI-generated images.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Trump\u2019s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told the Reuters news agency that the \u201cSwifties for Trump is a massive movement that grows bigger every single day\u201d, when asked for comment about the fake Swift image.<\/p>\n

Swift has been performing her final Eras shows of the European leg of her tour, which is due to finish at Wembley Stadium tonight.<\/p>\n

Some of Swift\u2019s fans previously mobilised to support Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign. The vice president is set to be formally nominated as the 2024 Democratic candidate at the party\u2019s national convention in Chicago<\/strong> this week.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Mr Biden announced he was not running for re-election in July, a group called \u201cSwifties for Kamala\u201d launched on social media. It has more than 61,000 followers on X and is not affiliated with the singer or Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not represent every Swiftie, but I think there is a reason we don\u2019t need AI to show our support for Kamala,\u201d the organisation\u2019s co-founder, Irene Kim, told NBC News in a statement.<\/p>\n

AI-generated images and videos of Swift have repeatedly gone viral this year, including deepfake sexual pictures on X which broke the platform\u2019s guidelines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Several Swift fans and watchdog groups said many of the images posted by Mr Trump appeared to be deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Sky News has contacted representatives for Swift for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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